About the Author
Adam Perkins
AuthorALPerkins · America's Race Doctor
Adam Perkins — also known as AuthorALPerkins, America's Race Doctor — is the writer of Looking Over Black Shoulders. A Graduate Student pursuing his MBA and an ordained elder in the SDA Christian church, Perkins brings a rare combination of academic rigor, spiritual grounding, and lived experience to the conversation on race in America. He has served as a law enforcement officer, attended law school, and holds a BA degree in Psychology. He published his first paper on race relations while serving as a US Army officer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Perkins has also served in the US Military, beginning his career as an enlisted man. He excelled academically and was later accepted into the Virginia Military Academy, where he was the only African American to matriculate as a commissioned officer in his class. With more than 30 years of extensive exploration, passion, and personal experience, he has proven to be an effective and compelling speaker on race-related issues. In college he served as an active orator on race-related issues, and today he lectures across the country introducing a new psychology of racism — one that reveals the bridge to America's racism issue.
Perkins insists that bringing people together across racial lines is possible, but only if they are ready to change. He believes that higher institutions of learning must be more engaging and inclusive on the subject of racism. "We now have a tool by which racism can be presented more equally as a humanitarian issue and not inadvertently just as a black issue." His desire is that people will read the book and re-evaluate their views on race relations in this country.
"The first step in combating racism is for all Americans to see racism the same way. My desire is that people will read the book and re-evaluate their views on race relations in this country."
— Dr. Adam L. Perkins — America's Race Doctor
Credentials & Background
Author
Looking Over Black Shoulders — first published 2008, relaunching 2026
Doctoral Graduate
Holds a Doctorate in curriculum education, an MBA, all building on a BA degree in Psychology
US Military Officer
The only African American commissioned officer in his class at the Virginia Military Academy
Law Enforcement & Law School
Served as a law enforcement officer and attended law school
Ordained Elder
Ordained elder in the SDA Christian church
National Speaker
Lectures across the country on a new psychology of racism and racial healing
America's Race Doctor
Book the Speaker
Adam's passion is people — and that same passion reverberates throughout his lectures.
Powerful. Passionate. Purposeful. Perkins.
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Have a question about race in America? Adam reads every submission personally.
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